If it’s indulgent home-comforts you’re after, these red velvet pancakes will easily rival your sweetest lemon crêpes.

Served with dark chocolate chips, honey-infused cream cheese frosting and a glug of thick chocolate sauce — they’ve quickly become my favourite way to eat cake for breakfast. And only take 30 minutes to make!

Here’s what you’ll need to start your day on a sweet note.

Ingredients (Serves 2)

For the pancakes:

115g self raising flour

15g cocoa powder

1 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp honey

2 eggs

1 tbsp vegetable oil, plus extra for frying

130ml milk

A couple of drops of red food colouring

30g dark chocolate chips

For the cream cheese frosting:

1.5 tbsp honey

120g cream cheese

To serve:

Chocolate sauce and chocolate shavings

Method

Step 1: Grab a bowl and mix together the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and a pinch of salt. Make a well in the middle of your dry ingredients and add the eggs, honey, veg oil, milk and food colouring.

Step 2: Beat the wet ingredients together then stir in the dry ingredients until you have a batter. Don’t worry if there are a few lumps.

Tip: Don’t over-mix your batter! It will make your pancakes less fluffy (and no one likes a limp pancake).

Step 3: Heat some oil in a non-stick frying pan. Ladle in 1/6 of your batter then sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top. Cook for 2 minutes, or until bubbles form on top of the pancake, then flip over and cook for another 2 minutes until golden. Repeat with the remaining batter.

Tip: Use medium heat until the pan is hot, then reduce to a medium-low. Blasting the heat will burn your cakes (or crêpes). Once they’re cooked, keep them warm under a tea towel.

Step 4: While your pancakes cook, mix the cream cheese and remaining honey together. This is your sweet, cream cheese frosting.

Step 5: Serve your pancakes with a dollop of cream cheese frosting and a sprinkle of chocolate shavings. Then add a good drizzle of chocolate sauce over the stack. Enjoy!

If you liked this, we reckon you might also like our Rhubarb And Pear Brown Sugar Pavlova.